Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

Written by Harper Lee

Narrated by Reese Witherspoon

Performed by Reese Witherspoon

#1 New York Times Bestseller

“Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades.""  — New York Times 

A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience.

Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Caedmon
• Release date: Jul 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9780062409898

Harper Lee

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which became a phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller when it was published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.

Reviews for Go Set a Watchman

[Atticus Foster · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was a hard one to read. It follows up To Kill a Mockingbird but adds a new shade of grey to the morality. I found it difficult to hear about all the changes, but I also found it very insightful. I am being purposely vague to not ruin it, but if you loved TKM like I did, you owe it to yourself to read this as well. Also Reese Witherspoon saying a certain word like 50 times is super jarring, so be prepared for that.

[Kyler Cipriano · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book took me a little by surprise. I kept flipping back and forth et between calling Lee another woke author and and taking it back. In the end she teaches the extreme importance of sitting with and loving people even when they disagree with you - an art our people seem to have lost.
She blurs the lines between right and left in a beautiful continuation of Scout’s education.